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Spectrum Volume 19 Issue 12 - November 14, 1996

The Virginia Tech Admissions Viewbook, designed by Michele Moldenhauer,
received an award of Excellent in the recent University and College Designers
Association (UCDA) competition. Selected from more than 1,200 entries from all
over the United States, the viewbook was exhibited at the UCDA Annual
Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The publication was written by Kelly
Queijo, edited by Richard Lovegrove, and included photography by
Bob Veltri, Rick Griffiths and Gary Colbert, all of University
Relations/Visual Communications. Richard Tsai, a Virginia Tech art
student, assisted with design and production of the piece.

The 1996 VPW Distinguished Service Award has been presented to Susan
Trulove, public relations coordinator for Research and Graduate Studies at
Virginia Tech.

The award recognizes professional excellence and service to VPW. In announcing
the award at the fall conference, Cynthia McMullen described Trulove as
"someone who's quietly made things happen behind the scene for years in VPW.

"She made it known a long time ago that she hates meetings-especially long
board meetings-so you won't find her in the line-up of officers, either
outgoing or incoming, today," McMullen said. "But VPW many years ago discovered
something that Virginia Tech obviously already knew: This woman is one of those
crucial people behind the scenes who make things happen. She has a great gift
for going right to the bottom line to determine what's really needed in every
situation.

"As an example, for the past two years-and for the next two-she has
volunteered to lay out the VPW newsletter, Galley Pruf. The bimonthly
newsletter sometimes runs 12 to 16 pages, and those of us who have done any
layout work on the computer know the amount of time, patience, and commitment
it takes. She has never sought any recognition for her efforts. It has simply
been her commitment that she easily dismisses by saying things like, `I love
doing that stuff anyway."

Two Virginia Tech women have been elected as officers of Virginia Press
Women. Lynn Nystrom, director of news and external relations, College of
Engineering, was named president, and Mary Ann Johnson, public relations
specialist, Extension communication, was elected treasurer.

Young-tsu Wong, professor of history, presented a paper entitled
"Philosophical Hermeneutics and Political Reform: Kang Youwei's Use of Gongyang
Confucianism" for the International Conference on the Hermeneutic Traditions in
Chinese Culture at Rutgers University.

Burton Kaufman, head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, has
had his book The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry
and Superpower Diplomacy published by Twayne Publishers and his book The
Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command (second edition)
published by McGraw Hill. His "Failed Presidents: Review Essay" was published
in Reviews in American History. He also attended the annual conference
of the American Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs in Whistler,
Canada.

Brian Britt of the religious-studies program has a new book, Walter
Benjamin and the Bible, coming out this month from Continuum.

Darleen Pryds of the humanities program has received grants from the
Andrew Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to
conduct research at the Vatican Film Library at St. Louis University during
spring semester 1997. She will be completing research for her forthcoming book,
The Liturgy of Power: Robert d'Anjou and the Politics of Preaching in
Fourteenth-Century Europe, contracted by E.J. Brill, Leiden. Her "Women Who
Preached: Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Acts: The Case of Rose of
Viterbo" will be published in Voices of the Spirit: Women Preachers and
Prophets in Christianity from its Origins through the Twentieth Century
from the University of California Press.

Michael Saffle of the music department presented a lecture entitled
"Liszt at the Madonna del Rosario, 1863-1865" at the annual Festival of the
American Liszt Society in Hamilton, Ontario.

At the same meeting, Saffle and James Deaville presented to prominent
musicologist Alan Walker their "Festschrift" in honor of his 65th
birthday; this volume contains 14 articles on Liszt's life, relationships, and
music by performers and scholars from Hungary, Germany, France, England,
Canada, and the United States. Saffle spent a week as visiting professor of
music at the University of Calgary, lecturing to three classes and taking part
in departmental activities.

Saffle gave a paper on 19th-century American symphonic poems at the II
International meeting of the Franz Liszt Society of Hungary, held in Budapest;
this paper will be published in next year's issue of the British Liszt Society
Journal. Saffle also gave a paper on "Liszt and the Traditions of Keyboard
Fantasy" at the International Liszt Congress in Stockholm; this paper will be
published in the near future by the Swedish Academy of Sciences in the
Conference Proceedings. A paper Saffle presented at the IV International
Liszt Conference has just appeared in that meeting's Proceedings,
published by the Burgenland Regional Museum. The study session Saffle chaired
with Deaville at the XV Congress of the International Musicological Society
meeting resulted in four papers published recently in Review of Musicology
in Spain.

Jurgen Koenemann, a post-doctoral fellow with the computer science
department, presented an invited talk on "Relevance Feedback: Use, Usability,
Utility" at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Information
Science in Baltimore, Md.

Rex Hartson of the computer science department gave a talk to the
Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The
title of his presentation was "Putting More Into, and Getting More Out of,
Usability Evaluation."

John Christman, associate professor of philosophy, recently gave a
paper called "Citizen Autonomy, Social Justice, and the Restructuring of the
Welfare State" at the 8th International Conference of the Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics in Geneva, Switzerland.

Roger Ariew, professor of philosophy, published a collection of essays
by the turn-of-the-century French physicist Pierre Duhem, entitled Pierre
Duhem: Essays in History and Philosophy of Science. Ariew edited and
translated the material with Peter Barker. Ariew also has given several
international lectures: "Descartes, Basso, and Post-Renaissance Scholastics:
Three Kinds of Corpuscularians" at the International Research Conference on
Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theory in St. Andrews,
Scotland; "Scholastic Critics of Descartes: The Cogito" at the International
Descartes Colloquium in Québec; and "The First Attempts at a Cartesian
Scholasticism: Descartes's Correspondence with the Jesuits of la Flèche"
at the Episodes in Descartes's Intellectual Biography from the Perspective of
His Correspondence with Learned European Society, International Conference in
Celebration of the Fourth Centenary of Rene Descartes's Birth.

Joseph C. Pitt, professor of philosophy, gave a lecture entitled
"Science, Technology and Culture," followed by a day-long workshop for the
Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy Institute on Science,
Technology, and Society.

Mary Beth Rosson of the computer science department attended OOPSLA'96,
the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special
Interest Group on Programming Languages, in San Jose, Cal. Rosson was on the
program committee for the conference and chaired a session on visual systems.

Several members of the statistics department presented papers at the 156th
Annual National Meetings of the American Statistical Association in Chicago:
Chris Assaid and Jeffrey Birch, "Outlier Resistant Regression
Robust to Model Misspecification"; Tim Robinson and Birch, "A Model
Robust Dual Modeling Approach to Heterogeneity of Variance in a Regression
Setting"; David Lawrence and Birch, "Cluster-Based Bounded Influence
Regression"; Michael Beaghen, "Comparing the Maximum Likelihood and
Least Squares Approaches to Common Principal Components"; KeyingYe,
"Comparative Calibration Without A Gold Standard"; Matthew D. Rotelli
and E.P. Smith, "Model Fusion: Combining Neural Networks With Linear
Models"; and George R. Terrell, "Why are Math Stat Courses Often Bad
Math and Bad Stat?" Raymond H. Myers was a discussant for the session
entitled Nonparametric and Robust Response Surface Methods, and Ye and Smith
organized and chaired the session on environmental and ecological statistics.

Marion Reynolds Jr. of the statistics department presented the invited
paper "Control Charts for Monitoring Processes With Autocorrelated Data" at the
Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts in Athens, Greece.

Klaus Hinkelmann of the statistics department presented a paper,
"Randomization and Meta-analysis: Replicated Complete Block Designs," at the
18th International Biometric Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He also
chaired a session on experimental design at that meeting.

Robert Foutz of the statistics department presented the invited paper
"A Generalized Fourier Analysis of Time Series Data" at the First Northern
Illinois University Symposium on Statistical Science in DeKalb, Ill.

Eric P. Smith of the statistics department presented the paper
"Graphical Display of Community Metrics With Application to Environmental
Monitoring" at the International Conference on Quantitative Methods for the
Environmental Methods, held in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Smith was elected to a
two-year position as secretary of The International Environmetric Society and
re-appointed to a two-year term as an associate editor of the Journal of
Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.

Larry Taylor of the chemistry department presented "New Horizons
for Supercritical Fluid Chromatography" to the Washington Chromatography
Discussion Group. He presented "New Developments in Supercritical Fluid
Technology at Virginia Tech" to the National Institute of Standards and
Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. At the 23rd Annual Conference of the Federation
of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies in Kansas City, he presented
"Supercritical Fluid Extraction/Chromatography Coupled with Infrared Analysis."
He also participated in a Department of Chemistry seminar at the College of
William and Mary.

W. Wat Hopkins of the communication-studies department has had three
articles published: "Justice Brennan, Justice Harlan and New York Times v.
Sullivan: A Case Study in Supreme Court Decision Making" was the lead article
in the autumn issue of Communication Law and Policy, the new quarterly
law journal published by the Law Division of the Association for Education and
Journalism and Mass Communication. "Reconsidering the `Clear and Present Danger
Test': Whence the `Marketplace of Ideas'?" was published in Free Speech
Yearbook. "The Supreme Court Defines the Marketplace of Ideas" was
published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

Robert Denton, head of the Leader Center at Virginia Tech and
professor of communication studies, delivered the keynote address to the
Virginia Mayor's Institute meeting in Roanoke.

At the same meeting, Rachel Holloway, communication studies, presented
a speech on "Communication and Meeting Management Skills."

Kenneth Rystrom of the communication-studies department was recognized
as a life member and former president at the 50th annual convention of the
National Conference of Editorial Writers in Baltimore. A commemorative edition
of The Masthead, the quarterly publication of NCEW, which contained
Rystrom's lengthy article retracing and reflecting on the 50-year history of
the organization, was distributed.

Antonio A. Fernandez, associate professor of Spanish, has been elected
to The Order of the Discoverers by the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor
Society Sigma Delta Pi. The order was created to recognize exceptional and
meritorious service in the fields of Hispanic scholarship, the teaching of
Spanish, and the promotion of good relations between English- and
Spanish-speaking countries. Fernandez, who came to Virginia Tech in 1979, is a
member of the Academy of Teaching Excellence and the recipient of three
Certificates of Teaching Excellence and the Wine Award for Excellence in
Teaching. Besides his research in the area of Spanish-American literature, he
has contributed extensively to curriculum and program development at Tech,
including Latin American Studies and proficiency-based instruction. He is
director of the Intensive Second Language Institute, a graduate-level immersion
program in French and Spanish.

Anita Puckett of the Appalachian Studies program has received a Travel
Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences to do research on her book in
progress, Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Speech Acts and Socioeconomic Relations in
a Rural Eastern Kentucky Community, for Oxford University Press. Her
article "Rights, Claims, Orders, and Imperatives in Rural Eastern Kentucky
Task-Focused Discourse" will be published in More Than Class: Studying Power
in U.S. Workplaces, in the Series in the Anthropology of Work by SUNY
Press. Puckett's book reviews of The Sound of the Dove: Singing in
Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches by Beverly Bush Patterson and
Appalachian Religion by Deborah McCauley were published in the Text
and Performance Quarterly. Puckett received a grant from the Appalachian
Regional Commission to do research next year on the cultural impact of
electronic networking on rural Appalachian communities.

Martha McCaughey, assistant professor of women's studies, was named the
"Outstanding Woman Graduate of 1995" from the University of California, Santa
Barbara. McCaughey is co-author with Laura Grindstaff of an article "Castration
Anxiety, (Male) Hysteria, and the Phallus: Re-membering John Bobbitt,"
published in the book No Angels: Women Who Commit Violence, published by
Pandora Press.

Terry Papillon of the humanities program in the Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies has had his article "Isocrates' Techne and Rhetorical
Pedagogy" published in the Rhetoric Society Quarterly . His article
"Isocrates on Gorgias and Helen: The Unity of the Helen" was published in
Classical Journal .

Ann Kilkelly, head of the Women's Studies program, with Bob Leonard
of theatre arts, initiated "Playing Community," an ongoing community
performance project that now has partnerships with five different community
organizations and has attracted 30 students, faculty and community members to
it. It initiates "performances" that put a community's issues into a
physicalized framework so that public "dialogue" (always performed, sometimes
silent) can take place.

Gary Downey of the Center for the Study of Science in Society has had
his article "Outside the Hotel: Theorizing Intervention" published in
Anthropology Between Science and the Humanities by Altamira Press.

Dennis Welch of the English department and humanities program has had
his article "Christabel, King Lear, and the Cinderella Folktale" published in
PLL: Papers on Language and Literature.

Paul K. Knox has been invited to join the editorial board of the Sage
Urban Affairs Annual Review Series, Sage Publications, Inc. for a two-year
period beginning January 1997. He will be actively involved in the production
and promotion of the series as well as proposal submission and manuscript
review.

Patrick Miller, head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, was
made a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects at a investiture
ceremony held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on October 19, 1996. He was
nominated by the Virginia chapter of the ASLA and selected in the professional
school instruction category.

A number of architecture faculty members presented papers in the 84th ACSA
Annual Meeting held in Boston, March 8-12. Presenters were Joe Mashburn,
"4 Houses;" BillRuskins, "Road-architecture and the Object of
Work;" Susan Piedmont-Paladino, "Design/Build in Context;" Frank
Weiner, "Towards the Tectonic: A Critique of the Idea of Space in
Architectural Education;" Paul Clark, "Urn and Chamber Pot;" and Mark
Blizard and Steve Thompson, "(De)signing the Referent: An Act in
Three Stories."

Scott Poole delivered a paper titled: "On the Coherence of Extremes:
Lessons from Painting in a Room by Le Corbusier" at the ALSA European
Conference, May 1996 in Copenhagen, Denmark. At this same conference he was
moderator for the session Materiality and Representation. Scott received the
Graham Foundation grant for publication of the proceedings of the Permanence
Symposium.

Lee Skabelund co-authored an article "Visualization in Decision-Support
Systems: A Proposal for the New River Gorge National River" for "The George
Wright Forum: A Journal of Cultural and Natural Parks and Preserves." He also
presented a paper at the Sixth Biennial International Linear Parks Conference
entitled "Bridging the Gap Between Federal State and Local Land Management
Agencies: The New River Parkway Land Management System."

Joseph A. Schetz, the J. Byron Maupin professor of aerospace and ocean
engineering, has been selected by the American Institute Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) to receive the 1997 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award.

The AIAA is recognizing Schetz for "extensive, sustained, outstanding
aerospace literature contributions, including many pioneering articles and
conference preprints, a widely appreciated monograph, edited volumes and two
successful textbooks."

The award, which will be presented to Schetz during the 35th Aerospace
Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nevada, on Jan 7, 1997, honors G. Edward Pendray,
founder and past president of the American Rocket Society, and is given
annually for outstanding contributions to aeronautical and astronautical
literature.

Schetz received his master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University
and joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1969. A prolific researcher and author
in the aerospace field throughout his career, during the past five years he has
written a textbook, edited another textbook, and authored or co-authored more
than 30 professional papers.

Three representatives of Virginia Tech's Division of Continuing Education took
part in the program of the Region III annual meeting of the University
Continuing Education Association in Gatlinburg, Tenn., on October 17. Ted
Settle, director, delivered a presentation, "The Academy in Change," on the
status of outreach and lessons learned at Virginia Tech. David Waterman
and J.C. Gordon, assistant and associate director for program
development, respectively, convened a session, "Outreach Across the Seas:
Joining Hands in the Global Community," which looked at a continuing education
program with Russian students studying at Virginia Tech for a year.

Michael Hensley, director of the Economic Development Assistance Center
in Virginia Tech's Public Service Programs, has been elected to the Policy
Committee of the Technical Education Division, American Vocational Association.
Hensley will serve a three-year term on the committee.

Boris Davidson, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering's Center for
Wireless Telecommunications (CWT), and Professor Charles Bostian, CWT
director, presented a paper at the Wireless Technology '96 conference held in
Providence, Rhode Island, October 7-11. The paper, "Survival of Messages
Colliding in a One-Way Communication Environment," was co-authored by Andrew
Harmon, who recently received his M.S. in electrical engineering from
Virginia Tech. The paper described the results of a spread-spectrum radio
receiver processing messages that arrive simultaneously from different
transmitters.

Three Extension home economists in P.D. 9 presented seminars at the National
Association of Extension Family and Consumer Scientists (NAEFCS) in September
in Providence, R.I. on "Transition From home to Work," a nine-lesson course on
home management for participants enrolled in the welfare reform program in
Virginia. At the request of the Department of Social Services in Culpeper
County in July 1995, the home economists developed the curriculum and taught
the classes to prepare social services' clients to re-enter the workforce.
Brenda Olafsen, Northern District Office; Helen Smith, Extension
agent, Rappahannock County; and Christine Kasten, Extension agent,
Orange County, presented two seminars explaining the classes. Barbara
Board, Extension specialist, 4-H state staff, conducted the evaluation of
the classes.